Pictures from the ADP marquee at the Big Day Out, Inverary Castle on the 23rd of July 2015.
Visitors at the ADP Marquee – Big Day Out Inverary 23 July 2015
In the marquee
Inside the ADP marquee at the Big Day Out
Craig McNally from the NHS, Carol muir and Sarah Marquis from the ADP Support Team and Jen Goff from Waverley Care at the Big Day Out in Inverary
The second Argyll and Bute Celebrating Youth Achievement event the AB Awards will take place on Thursday 24th September 2015.
Argyll and Bute Youth Services in partnership with Argyll and Bute Youth Forum are once again organising an event to celebrate Youth Achievement; which we plan to hold in September 2015 in the same form of a glitzy, red carpet, black tie award ceremony. The awards are designed to recognize young people’s achievement within the community and an opportunity to showcase the positive impact young people are making in our society.
View the AB Awards poster.
Want to nominate someone, click here for a form.
On Tuesday 23 June, at an event in London, researchers from the University of Bath with colleagues from the University and Stirling launched a set of practice guidelines aimed at providing meaningful support to people who have lost a relative or friend to alcohol or drugs.
The guidelines, based on findings from a three-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded project, suggest that those left bereaved after a drug or alcohol related death often receive poor, unkind or stigmatising responses which can exacerbate their grief.
The study interviewed 106 bereaved adults, the largest known qualitative research sample of its kind, and held focus groups with 40 members, mainly practitioners (some also bereaved), whose work brings them into contact with this group.
While some bereaved people reported positive experiences, the study has identified much poor practice resulting from practitioners not understanding this kind of death and the issues involved.
See the full report here.
An interactive online film for teenagers which aims to bust the safety myths around so-called “legal highs” has been launched.
Children as young as 12 years old have been hospitalised after taking new psychoactive substances (NPS), prompting investigations by police into how young people access and take them.
The video can be accessed through the following link: Choices for Life
The Scottish government is taking its case for minimum unit pricing on alcohol to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg today.
The court hearing will enable EU member states to take the opportunity to make representations on the Scottish government’s proposal to introduce a 50p minimum price for a unit of alcohol.
On Saturday 19th September 2015 Recovery Walk Scotland will be assembling on Glasgow Green to walk the city centre route that will take us up High Street, through George Square and making our way back to the Green via Clyde Street.
Find out more at the Scottish Recovery Consortium site.
NHS advisers are calling for the legal drinking age to be increased from 18 to 21 in Scotland in an attempt to crack down on binge drinking and save money.
The move would apply to clubs, pubs, supermarkets and off-licenses.
To see the full story click here.
There have been a number of cases where people have contracted Botulism after using contaminated heroin.
Click here to information about botulism for users.
Wound botulism is life threatening and the information in this briefing should be shared with all frontline staff and discussed with all people who inject drugs. In the United Kingdom wound botulism is typically associated with heroin use, however elsewhere there have been links with both amphetamine and cocaine use.
Click here to view the booklet.
A third of online Scots aged 18+ (33 per cent compared to 27 per cent across the UK) believe the main cause of homelessness is alcohol or drug addiction, according to new research commissioned by The Salvation Army and carried out by Ipsos MORI*.
View the story on the Salvation Army website
Notes to Editors
*Research commissioned by The Salvation Army and carried out by Ipsos MORI. 2,119 UK adults were interviewed online between 9-13th January 2015, of these, 217 were in Scotland. The data has been weighted to the national profile of the UK population.
The Salvation Army conducted an anonymous survey this month of 314 residents at its lifehouses.
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